Category: Conferences

Conferences, workshops, meetings, summer schools

16th Pencil Code User Meeting 2020

The Pencil Code User Meeting is an annual meeting dedicated to the Pencil Code. The purpose of the meeting is to bring regular users and core developers together to discuss scientific and technical progress since the last meeting, to instigate collaborative projects and to allow new users to learn more about the code and to interact with other users and developers. The Pencil Code Meeting 2020 will be held in virtually using Zoom.

The Pencil Code is a multipurpose code for massively parallel computing. It includes optionally hydrodynamics, magnetic fields, radiation, ionization, multi-species dust dynamics with coagulation, self-gravity and particles. It is developed and maintained under Git version control by around 78 people with check-in permission. Until now more than 30,000 updates and commits have been made by the developers. With more than 527 papers referring to the Pencil Code it has been very successful. The code is tested nightly on several platforms and provides an excellent pedagogical tool for professional scientists as well as students to implement new code within an organized framework.

Here are some example topics that the meeting aims at covering:
– Recent science results obtained with the Pencil Code
– Physics recently added to the code, such as particle collisions
– Recently added visualization techniques, such as on-the-fly 3D rendering and spherical slices
– Technical issues
– Post processing routines
– Particles in turbulence and convection
– Future improvements to the code

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The 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2020) is Postponed to 01-05 November 2021.

Dear Colleagues.

With the ongoing uncertainties around the current COVID-19 pandemic, and now with concerns regarding second and third peaks in some countries, the PC in conjunction with the LOC Core Team have taken the decision to postpone the 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW17/ESWW2020) to 01-05 November 2021. Therefore, the 17th European Space Weather Week will now be known as ESWW2021. We will now look forward to welcoming you all to Glasgow in November 2021.

With regards to the current preparations – PC Working Group leads will be in touch separately regarding work undertaken to-date in preparation for the 17th ESWW.

In addition, we are looking at some possibilities of having a European Space Weather online meeting in November 2020 – and this will be completely separate from the ESWW series. We will make any announcements about this in due course. The ESWW medals will also still be going ahead for 2020 – so again – please watch for announcements regarding those too.

Finally, we want to thank everyone who took the time to complete our questionnaire last week – this was very helpful in assisting us in making the decision to postpone by one year – and to wish you all well and hope that you remain safe for however much longer this pandemic lasts.

All the best, and see you in Glasgow 01-05 November 2021,

Mario
PC Chair
LOC Vice Chair
(on behalf of the PC and LOC for ESWW17/ESWW2021)

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Virtual RHESSI Workshop in July 2020

Because of the difficulties in holding the originally scheduled RHESSI 19 Workshop in a face-to-face format during the 2020 calendar year, the SOC and LOC have made the difficult decision to postpone this Workshop until 2021. However, in order to keep the community involved and up to date with exciting developments in several areas, we are planning to hold a 2-day virtual (on-line) meeting on Monday-Tuesday, July 7-8, 2020 (the dates of the originally scheduled workshop). This virtual workshop (“RHESSI 18.5”) will be held via Webex from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Eastern time both days; more details, including the meeting schedule, will be posted at https://agenda.infn.it/e/RHESSI-19/.

So, please re-mark your calendars, and I hope to see you online in July!

Gordon Emslie
RHESSI Workshop Convenor
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Online Summer School for Time Domain Science – Applications now being accepted, deadline 1st July 2020

Online Summer School for Time Domain Science

Applications are now being accepted for the online GROWTH astronomy school “The Dynamic Universe at all Wavelengths”. The school will include live webinars and interactive virtual workshops scheduled on Aug 17-21, 2020.

This school is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students with strong research interests in time-domain astronomy.

Selected candidates will be introduced to a wide range of observational techniques and data analysis tools for transient follow up at X-ray, UV, optical, infrared and radio wavelengths.

The 5-day program will engage students via live webinars (lectures and discussions) that introduce a topic, followed by live interactive workshops during which students will work with Python notebooks and data from observatories from around the world.

To learn more and apply, go to http://growth.caltech.edu/growth-school-2020.html

The application deadline is July 1st, 2020.

The educational resources from previous GROWTH schools are available on our website at http://growth.caltech.edu/astronomy-school.html .

GROWTH (http://growth.caltech.edu: Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen) is an international collaboration in astronomy led by Caltech that conducts frontier research in time-domain astronomy.

Questions can be sent to growth.astro.school@gmail.com

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WISA meeting 2020 (Northumbria, UK) – Postponed

Dear Colleagues,

As has happened with so many meetings, we are unfortunately postponing the Waves & Instabilities in the Solar Atmosphere (WISA) 2020 meeting that was due to take place at Northumbria University, UK.

We will be looking at potential dates later this year or next year. A further announcement will be made in the near future.

Best wishes,

Richard Morton (on behalf of the LOC and SOC)… continue to the full article

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UPDATE: STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas Summer School 2020 will be an ONLINE meeting

This year’s STFC Introductory Summer School will be an online meeting.

It was due take place in Birmingham from 24 – 28 August. However, owing to COVID-19, an in-person meeting is no longer possible (University restrictions mean we can no longer run face-to-face conferences/events at that time). Having consulted with STFC, we are therefore switching to online delivery. Whilst the change is far from ideal, it will ensure this year’s cohort of new PhD students do not miss out entirely. We will do our best to maintain the interactive and mixing/networking elements that are such an important part of the School.

We will provide further details soon, including the full programme of lectures, how to register, and information on the platform for delivery.

Registration will be free for all delegates, and will open in early June.

Bill Chaplin, on behalf of the LOC… continue to the full article

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Virtual EGU “Theory and simulation of space plasmas” sessions 6th/7th May

Due to the COVID situation and the cancellation of the EGU, our session on “Theory and Simulations of space plasmas” has been converted into a Zoom session. All are welcome to attend.

The sessions are on the mornings of Wednesday 6th May and Thursday 7th May, both 8 am to 12 noon.

There is a wide range of talks covering: Turbulence and reconnection; the Solar Wind; the Sun

See programme and Zoom links at https://www-astro.physik.tu-berlin.de/node/515

Best regards,
Philippa Browning, Jorg Buechner, Gianni Lapenta and Shangbin Yang… continue to the full article

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Survey regarding ESWW17/ESWW2020 in Glasgow, UK, 02-06 November 2020

Dear Colleagues.

With continuous ongoing developments due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are assessing all the options for our upcoming 17th European Space Weather Week (ESWW) to be held in the UK 02-06 November 2020:

http://esww17.iopconfs.org/

To help guide the PC and LOC decision-making processes, if you were originally thinking of coming to ESWW this year or are a regular attendee of ESWW, please could you complete our survey by 12:00UT Wednesday 6th May 2020:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/K6BBUU/

Very many thanks in advance and take care,

Mario
PC Chair
LOC Vice Chair
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